Unable to telnet from outside my LAN

[robertlc98]

I'm running Solaris 8 on an x86 box and have had great success up to this point. Because of hardware failure I had to completely rebuild the machine. Since then I'm able to telnet or FTP to it from anywhere within my LAN, but cannot from outside it. I thought my router could be the problem, but when I re-routed port 23 to different machine I was able to access it remotely.

What have I missed??

Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated

 

[grega]

Can your sun box see any machines outside the LAN?

If not, you need to add the IP of the router to your routing table, or create the file /etc/defaultrouter with the IP of the router. To add to the routing table use route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. View the routing table using netstat -r.

If you go the /etc/defaultrouter way, create the file and reboot.

Greg.

 

[robertlc98]

Thanks...

I had added the information to the default router, but it wasn't in the routing table. After adding it everythings working.

Thanks again.